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Women work without a break for their families, society, and friends all through the year. So, on IWD 2016, LEAD conducted their 3rd annual "Recognizing the Unrecognized", where women in our society who are rarely recognized but are responsible for important work were recognized for their contributions, such as cleaning railway stations, bus stands, picking household trash, selling vegetables etc. LEAD and LEADers believe that, without these women, our communities would come to a standstill.

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. To that purpose, the LEaders Accelerating Development (LEAD) Program of the Deshpande Foundation was born. LEAD develops innovative and entrepreneurial thinking within college students by exposing them to social issues, encouraging them to volunteer their time and effort into the community, and igniting their latent talent to come up with creative solutions. Through this unique platform provided by LEAD, students are gaining the skills and confidence needed to transform their visions into realities. Armed with guidance, exposure, networking opportunities, financial assistance, and encouragement from LEAD, students from throughout 75 colleges and 14 districts are unleashing their leadership potential to go on inspiring and improving those around them.

The 6th Yuva Summit, an international youth conference on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship hosted by the Leaders Accelerating Development program, began in Hubballi on 6th February with Mr. Ravindranath Gumaste, Managing Director of Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd., cutting the ceremonial ribbon that let the hundreds of attendees, including students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and honoured guests, into the event grounds.

On 24th January, 107 promising students from across Karnataka and neighbouring states descended upon the VTU campus in Belagavi to mark the kick-off of the 5th annual LEAD Prayana. These students, along with 32 beginning their journey on the same day in Nizamabad, were selected from a pool of almost 500 applicants. LEAD Prayana, which began in 2012 with just 63 students, is an annual leadership journey that takes almost 150 passionate students between the ages of 18-26 throughout India on a 14-day tour across Karnataka...

I am passionate about science, especially physics. My affair with Science started during my childhood and it deepened in my high school when I started participating in Science exhibitions with my models. During Pre University Education, I built the Levitation Train with few of my friends and grabbed prizes at several competitions. “Physics of the Impossible” by Michio Kaku was a book that exposed me further to the vastness of the science and motivated me to start a science group called “Blackbody Science Group (Which Absorbs All Wavelength of Intuitive Minds)”. This group engages in creating interest about science among government and physically disabled school children.

LEAD Project Award Winner - Dharwad Region 2012LEADers Naveen S. B. and Naveen J. joined LEAD Cell of SKSVMACET, Laxmeshwar in February 2012. Inspired by existing LEADers’ projects in LEAD and by his passion of doing something helpful for the rural people, Naveen S. B. came up with the idea to solve the unemployment problem. It does not seem easy to work on this big problem of so he formed a team of Naveen J., Veeru, Kedar, Ashwani and Maruti from his college and named it “Live Smart”.

Very professionally they started their work by distributing
the responsibilities among the team. They made a format of collecting the
information from the people about their job preferences, eligibility and needs.
They visited around one dozen villages of Kundagol, Shirahatti and Laxmeshwar
Tallukas and collected information from the people who have knowledge
and skills but lack the opportunity to get jobs.
The team approached companies like VRL PrivateLtd. Hubli, SPICER Pvt Ltd. Dharwad, TATA
MARCOPOLO Dharwad, KSSCA Haveri, Vasivi medical stores Bagalkot, KNNL Dharwad, Basaveshwar
Education Institute Dharwad and Sankeshwar Printers, Gadag to get their job
requirements. After getting the details f they matched candidate profiles with
company needs and started sending them for interview. Within a period of one
month five people have got jobs, 4 in KSSCA Haveri and 1 in a petrol pump in
Badami.